What are your chances
of locating any of the above unclaimed
mail?Nil.
The list below was published in the Melbourne Times in 1843. Unclaimed
mail was held at
the Melbourne
Post Office for a month, then lists such as this were advertised in the
Victorian Government Gazette/newspapers.Any
letters which remained unclaimed for a further six months
were then destroyed. Probably a lot of the mail was actually
collected once the addressees knew there was some waiting for them.Denis
Strangman has a good explanation on hisLamplough webpage of the use of these
unclaimed mail lists.Collecting Postal History - using Victoria
as an example